[Developers] Acre hosted app licensing - BSD only?

[Jason Douglas]

On Jul 2, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
>
> One of the things that I'd like to see is a compare and contrast /
> advantages and disadvantages for all the different libraries, tools,
> hosting environments, etc that are offered for Freebase.  Should I use
> Acre or MJT or freebase-python or metaweb-py or load up the quad dumps
> in a SQL database and use SQL or parse the WEX or ...?  What are the
> business and technological implications of each?  I'm probably going
> to write up my own opinions on this in a blog post for those
> contemplating developing apps which touch Freebase in some way, but it
> would be interesting to hear the official Metaweb party line as well.

Our first goal is just to collect links to all these things in one  
place...
most people don't even know the list.  We'll leave the value judgements
to you.  :-)

For the most part, our party line has been "use what works" rather than
having an official position... however we do intend to be much better  
going
forward about clarifying what we support and intend to continue to  
develop
vs. what are just experiments that may die on the vine.

That's also one of the goals with Acre -- both in it's licensing and  
the associated
app gallery, cookbooks, etc.-- is to have a place where the best  
libraries or code
patterns win, no matter who comes up with them.  Cut/paste, clone,  
require.

-jason